American spirit Quote by Albert Goodwill Spalding

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing…

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a…

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

— George Will

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business…

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

— Pat Gillick

What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

— Mark Kurlansky

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

— Harrison Ford

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of…

— Philip Roth

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming…

— Mark Twain

Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its…

— Kenesaw Mountain Landis

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

— Thomas Boswell

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall…

— Paul Auster